The Human Brain Project, recently awarded a 10 year grant by the EU Commission, will pull together all our existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations. In a special session at the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference, scientists working on the Human Brain Project [...]
Source: Mediacom EPFL More and more data churned out by even more powerful supercomputers. Science has entered the era of “Very Big Data”. But what for, exactly? Neuroscience, physics, climatology, human and social sciences… Science depends increasingly on gigantic quantities of data. How do we manage and exploit it all? What kind of results can [...]
A new-generation analog-to-digital converter (ADC) developed by a joint IBM-EPFL team has the potential to greatly increase the speed and volume of data that can be transferred over the Internet. Author: Sarah Perrin Source: Mediacom Images, audio, and video could soon travel through cyberspace much faster, using less energy, thanks to a new generation of [...]
The Swiss Numerics Days are series of annual, informal one-day meetings that continue the tradition of the “Journées Suisses d’Analyse Numérique” which were launched in 1976. They aim at bringing together researchers both from the academic and industrial sectors in Switzerland which are active in the fields of scientific computing numerical analysis high-performance computing visualization [...]
Since January 28, researchers from EPFL and the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne have benefitted from a new supercomputer, the BlueGene/Q. This computer is four times more powerful than its predecessor – it can perform 172,000 billion operations per second! With low energy consumption, it also is counted among the Top 10 greenest supercomputers in [...]
